Evidence-based treatments for depression and anxiety versus treatment-as-usual: A meta-analysis of direct comparisons

The enduring effects of psychodynamic treatments vis-à-vis alternative treatments: A multilevel longitudinal meta-analysis

“…Indeed, decades of research have confirmed that psychotherapy is remarkably and consistently effective (Smith, Glass, & Miller, 1980;Wampold & Imel, 2015). Rather, these results simply suggest that psychodynamic treatments are equivalently efficacious when compared with et al, 2002;Wampold & Imel, in press;Imel et al, 2008;Benish et al, 2008;Wampold et al, 2011), the present study extends these findings by analyzing the growth in treatment differences beyond treatment completion. As it appears, bona fide psychodynamic treatments are equally effective as bona fide non-psychodynamic treatments at post-treatment and beyond.…”

Is interpersonal counselling (IPC) sufficient treatment for depression in primary care patients? A pilot study comparing IPC and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT)

“…the frequency and length of the sessions, clinical supervision of therapists and patients, and equal opportunities to address the major problems). This means that in a well-organized study the control group should contain the general and essential elements of treatment (Baskin et al 2003, Wampold et al 2011. The control treatment (IPT) was delivered by two registered psychotherapists and two licensed psychologists.…”

Evidence-Based Psychotherapy

“…However, when focusing on the relative efficacy of these treatment approaches, recent reviews have shown that it is difficult to confirm superiority of any one approach over another. When only studies directly comparing two treatments are considered (which were both intended to be used in therapeutic settings, i.e., bona fide psychotherapies), many yield effect sizes around zero (e.g., Benish et al, 2008;Wampold et al, 2011). This implies a lack of superiority of one evidence-based treatment (classified either as strong or modest in comparison to a control group; see Table 1) over another (Benish et al, 2008) and also illustrates that the relative efficacy of evidence-based therapies (EBTs) versus treatment-as-usual (TAU) may depend on the specific TAU conditions (Wampold et al, 2011).…”